The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I’ll understand. —Chinese proverb

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. —Nelson Mandela

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat A child who is protected from all controversial ideas is as vulnerable as a child who is protected from every germ. The infection, when it comes- and it will come- may overwhelm the system, be it the immune system or the belief system.  ―Jane Smiley

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Each of us, famous or infamous, is a role model for somebody, and if we aren't, we should behave as though we are -- cheerful, kind, loving, courteous. Because you can be sure someone is watching and taking deliberate and diligent notes. — Maya Angelou

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat A poor teacher complains, an average teacher explains, a good teacher teaches, a great teacher inspires. — H. Narasimhaiah

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat A teacher is one who can show you the way to yourself. — Erwin Chargaff, Heraclitean Fire: Sketches from a Life Before Nature (1978) cited in BrainPickings

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat How can I be an educator if I do not develop in myself a caring and loving attitude toward the student, which is indispensable on the part of one who is committed to teaching and to the education process itself. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. — Carl Jung

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat To say that chemistry between a student and a teacher distracts from learning is like saying that color distracts from seeing. It does not distract; it enlivens, enhances, intensifies: it fixes the gaze. It gives teeth to the eyes, a digestive tract to the brain. — Cristina Nehring, The Higher Yearning

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat I do not need to establish a deep, lasting, time-consuming personal relationship with every student. What I must do is to be totally and nonselectively present to the student—to each student—as he addresses me. The time interval may be brief but the encounter is total. — Nel Noddings, Caring: A Feminist Approach to Ethics and Moral Education

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat I am dealing with people and not with things. And, because I am dealing with people, I cannot refuse my wholehearted and loving attention, even in personal matters, where I see that a student is in need of such attention. — Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of Freedom

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers. —James Thurber

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom. — George Washington Carver

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. —Aristotle

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow. —Anthony J. D'Angelo

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot. ―Audre Lorde

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. —William Butler Yeats

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ―Mahatma Gandhi

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ―Mark Twain

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. —Nelson Mandela

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The job of an educator is to teach students to see vitality in themselves.  ―Joseph Campbell

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The past has no power over the present moment.  ―Eckhart Tolle

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat I am not a teacher, but an awakener. ―Robert Frost

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat A teacher who loves learning earns the right and the ability to help others learn.  ―Ruth Beechick

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.  ―William Arthur Ward

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.  ―Phil Collins

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world.  ―Malala Yousafzai

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next. —Abraham Lincoln

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. —Malcolm Forbes

The Love of Teaching: A Faculty Retreat The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn. — Gloria Steinem

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